Recent content by megabusser

Interesting to see it being exclusively funded by Renfrewshire Council - I don’t remember seeing that before within ‘SPT-land’. Is that unique? Looks like a potentially useful service, Braehead is so close but a pain (and expensive if via train and bus) to get to by public transport from...

I think this is the link you’re after. Good luck. https://web.archive.org/web/20230519133735/https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service-disruptions/lancaster-20230519/

I was travelling on an off-peak return last weekend; the return train I’d planned to get was cancelled (TPE leg of a Noethern/TPE journey) and I hopped on the next available journey according to an online journey planner. It was a different route/TOC (Norther/EMR/Avanti) but equally valid. I...

Very interesting - I think the current Edinburgh-Glasgow journeys are all part of longer routes rather than them explicitly competing with CityLink on the 900. This might imply a change to that?

I got a reply from my local MP (Edinburgh North, SNP) who shares my concerns and pointed me towards it being raised in Parliament here -...

Interesting to see a Bright Bus sponsored post on Facebook advertising tickets to Murrayfield from the city centre (£2) and the airport (£4). A contrast to Lothian who never promote AirLink for anything but airport journeys as far as I know. Also encourages you to “book your seat today” -...

Especially when Lumo have a far more restrictive luggage policy that most/all other operators. Having them listed alongside LNER services is not great. Incidentally, I’ve written to my local (Edinburgh North) MP about this change, which will affect me both directly occasionally (wanting to buy...

Interesting read. One thing I didn’t realise before reading the blog is that the tram is more expensive than the Airlink bus - I don’t think that was the case a few years ago? Anyway, I can see the McGill’s venture doing alright for them, but do wonder if there are more of private companies...

Can’t help but think that cherry-picking Lothian’s profitable services in the way that they are is just making the case for franchising or other regulation of bus services, presumably exactly what McGills don’t want!

Hi all, I tend to use the forum ticket site (split tickets) or LNER app (easy to use on mobile) for long-distance trains, with the Scotrail app for anything in Scotland (due to, love them or loathe them, m-tickets and, outside the current peak fares trial, Super Off Peak Tickets). However...

Will it be in CityLink livery? Smallest bus branded CityLink since the Glasgow AirPort Express service many many years ago I guess!

Zero chance of that, would require legislative change at the Scottish level. They also couldn’t realistically distinguish between tour buses and other ones.

Looks like a 900 had an incident with a low bridge this evening… Photo/source: https://twitter.com/itsJamesDoherty/status/1696660287326241035?s=20

It’s also significantly harder to just see at a glance when the next 26 (or whatever) is due - since the buses are ordered by expected arrival time rather than route. Hopefully they can be modified to be more user-friendly - the old ones, while obviously basic and understandably end of life...

Used the forum site to book for the first time the other day - worked well except changing seat reservations on the same train. On the way back, I booked a seat only reservation via GWR, which worked perfectly. One feature request - could the booking confirmation email and/or .ics calendar file...